03-09-2003 23:19									#61
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quote: Originally posted by Ogie Oglethorpe So all we need concern ourselves is knowing who the antiChrist will be. Any takers on who it will be?

President Bush.

	04-09-2003 02:25									#62
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Finally! A way to rid the world of those evil penguins!!!

	04-09-2003 02:40									#63
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20 miles per second? those rocks in space are fast!


I didn't know we could see that far into space. If it is travelling at 20 miles per second and it won't be here till 2015, it must be a long way!

	04-09-2003 02:41									#64
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btw, don't kid yourself, we have enough nukes to destory it a million times over!

	04-09-2003 02:55									#65
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Is there any safe place where we can store our stockpiles of bannanas before this thing hits?

	04-09-2003 03:01									#66
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Go to space and stay there for a while

	04-09-2003 03:02									#67
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quote: Originally posted by Ogie Oglethorpe So all we need concern ourselves is knowing who the antiChrist will be. Should be rising to prominence and establsihing world peace (at least with Israel and the rest of the world) for seven years. The tribulation ensues. Eventually battle of Armageddon culminates with a large rock from the heavens being thrown down. Any takers on who it will be?

Probably the next Pope or a future UN Secretary General.

	04-09-2003 04:02									#68
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Perhaps they will determine that it will miss us but in a forward thinking state of mind the goverment decides that they will test various methods of deflecting space objects so that when it happens for real we will have a proven method, but in a strange twist of fate all the experiments conducted actually move it into a course that will bring it to earth.

	04-09-2003 04:30									#69
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that would suck

	04-09-2003 05:20									#70
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if it hits us, it will prolly just land in the middle of the ocean anyway...

	04-09-2003 05:22									#71
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quote: Originally posted by Qilue An analogy of an asteroid hitting the ocean. (someone with greater knowledge of scaling could give more accuracy) Imagine shooting a rifle (.223 remington) vertically into a shallow pond (say 12cm deep). How much mud would be sprayed around? Moral, there would be dust along with an extremely big tsunami. An asteroid impact on land would cause less damage (both short and long term) than one hitting the ocean. Long term effects - First the dust would reduce sunlight below levels needed for photosynthesis, thus the plants and phyto-plankton would die. Then slowly up the food chain, each level would starve as it's food source died off. Also, with the carbon cycle broken, co2 levels would begin rising but not significantly enough to prevent a nuclear winter which would kill off almost everything else. All is not lost since the cockroaches will most likely survive.

The analogy doesn't hold. You can't just scale it up that way.

Dust from the bottom of the ocean is not going to go into the AIR, no matter how much of it there is.

	04-09-2003 05:24									#72
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So no one is worried what will happen to our bannana supply?

	04-09-2003 06:35									#73
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where's thorn???

	04-09-2003 12:12									#74
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You know, people have predicted the end of the world so many times throughout history. I just don't think it's really gonna happen.

	04-09-2003 15:38									#75
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In this case it isn't. NASA have now apparently decided it isn't going to hit so we're safe for the moment.

Until the next one.

	04-09-2003 16:09									#76
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quote: Originally posted by CerberusIV In this case it isn't. NASA have now apparently decided it isn't going to hit so we're safe for the moment.

Well wasn't that nice of NASA, leting us live a little bit longer.